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EPR Policies and Product Design: Economic Theory and Selected Case Studies

01-Mar-2006

By placing responsibility for a product's end-of-life environmental impacts on the original producer, EPR policies are expected to enhance design changes to products.  Design for Environment (DfE), while reducing waste management costs, should improve product recyclability and reusability, downsize products and reduce material usage.  This report discusses the 'Design for the Environment' impacts of EPR policies and investigates the extent to which these policies can contribute to DfE improvements.

Analytical Framework for Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Extended Producer Responsibility Programmes

03-Mar-2005

Extended Producer Responsibility is a policy approach where the responsibility of producers for their products is extended to include the social costs of waste management. This document, prepared by Prof. Stephen Smith, proposes a framework for analysing the costs and benefits of such programmes.

Towards Waste Prevention Performance Indicators

08-Nov-2004

This paper [ENV/EPOC/WGWPR/SE(2004)1/FINAL] was adopted and declassified by the Delegates of the Working Group on Waste Prevention and Recycling in May 2004.

Part 1 of this document identifies drivers for the generation of municipal waste, its components and some other waste streams. A set of pressure indicators for waste prevention are proposed for trial use by OECD and its member countries.

Part 2 assesses whether the available information would suffice the development of response indicators for waste prevention. Some generic response indicators are proposed for further discussion.

Part 3 explores linkages between material use, waste generation, economic development and waste prevention policies towards the development of MFA-based waste prevention indicators. Some MFA-based indicators are proposed for measuring the effectiveness of waste policies.

Towards Waste Prevention Performance Indicators: Proceedings of an OECD Workshop

06-Oct-2004

A comprehensive report on this pioneering workshop is now available.  In the first part you will find the synthesis, discussion and recommendations report. Part 2 provides the agenda, documentation, outcomes of breakout group discussions and the list of participants